SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIA - PHYSIOLOGY DETERMINES THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL-IMPACT

Authors
HAMILTON WA
Citation
Wa. Hamilton, SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIA - PHYSIOLOGY DETERMINES THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL-IMPACT, Geomicrobiology journal, 15(1), 1998, pp. 19-28
Citations number
45
Categorie Soggetti
Environmental Sciences","Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
Geomicrobiology journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
01490451
Volume
15
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
19 - 28
Database
ISI
SICI code
0149-0451(1998)15:1<19:SB-PDT>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
The cell physiology of the sulfate-reducing bacteria is considered in the light of the thermodynamic restrictions imposed by the use of sulf ate as terminal electron acceptor. Extension of the analysis to partic ular ecosystems demonstrates that the environmental and economic probl ems associated with these organisms-pollution, hydro-carbon reservoir souring, and corrosion of carbon steel-are the direct consequences of that cell physiology.